Through you, Mr. Chair, I just want to remind the committee that my role as a public health physician is to actually offer the best evidence-informed advice. That's what I put in front of certainly local decision-makers in Toronto, and that's what I would offer to Canadians, although my purview is obviously for Toronto.
This is evidence-informed interventions. I cannot state enough, one, the application we put in front of the federal government was for a decriminalization approach, which is different from legalization, and it further argues for the necessity for more services across the board, including prevention, including harm reduction and including treatment.